You know things aren’t going well for the Bush Administration when a former top advisor to the President drafts an op-ed entitled “Kerry Was Right.”

Matthew Dowd (no relation to Maureen) painted Kerry as a flip-flopper in 2004. Now he sides with the former Democratic nominee in calling for a withdrawal from Iraq. “If the American public says they’re done with something, our leaders have to understand what they want,” Dowd told the New York Times in an interview published on Sunday. “They’re saying, ‘Get out of Iraq.'” He calls his former boss “secluded and bubbled in.”

Dowd may be late to the party, as some have commented, but his entrance is a stirring one nonetheless. He’s not the first Bush insider to speak out against the policies and tactics of this Administration. Think of John Dilulio and David Kuo and Lawrence Wilkerson and Flynt Leverett.

Yet Dowd’s the most high-profile ally-turned-critic yet. And it’s fair to say he won’t be the last.